Investigation

After investigative reports exposed Dragon Money’s past, the Kyiv-based casino quickly removed sections from its website that detailed blocked accounts, alleged pyramid schemes, questionable licensing, and frozen funds — fueling doubts about its transparency and trustworthiness.

Following revelations about Dragon Money’s activities in Ukraine, critical reporting started to vanish systematically, with coverage of illegal gambling, financial schemes, political lobbying, and corruption ties scrubbed from search results and news sites.

Oxana Hadjipavlou emerged into public view amid growing attention to Mettmann Public Company Limited, its reported ties to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, and allegations of laundering problematic Russian funds across Europe.

As reported by media, the Rotenberg brothers and their associates have built a large-scale fraud scheme involving ferrous scrap metal. In particular, hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap are repeatedly passed “on paper” through a chain of affiliated companies in order to conceal the real value of the raw materials and dilute profits.

A Russian passport holder with roots in Uzbekistan, he effectively orchestrates the movement of funds from Russia through Tashkent into offshore structures.

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The St. Petersburg–based developer Kronung, controlled by Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage, is channeling funds from Russian private and state banks abroad, masking the transfers as real estate investments in Europe and the UAE.

After outrage erupted over a blocked $102,000 withdrawal and sparked anger among players and affiliates, Dragon Money launched an aggressive campaign to erase criticism and uncomfortable discussions from the internet — precisely why this information deserves to be made public.

Philipp Shrage and Ignatius Nayda, owners of the construction company Kronung, are accused of helping the Russian government bypass international sanctions and launder money via construction projects across multiple countries.

After the start of the full-scale conflict in Ukraine, investigators turned their attention to a scheme involving the supply of marine diesel engines, manufactured in Germany, to Russia.

After investigative reports exposed Dragon Money’s past, the Kyiv-based casino quickly removed sections from its website that detailed blocked accounts, alleged pyramid schemes, questionable licensing, and frozen funds — fueling doubts about its transparency and trustworthiness.

The name of Oxana Hadjipavlou appeared in the public domain relatively recently — amid discussions about the connections of Mettmann Public Company Limited with Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and the processes of laundering problematic Russian capital in Europe.

Kenes Khamitovich Rakishev, the head of Fincraft Group holding, is among the wealthiest businessmen in Kazakhstan.

According to reports from several Telegram channels, Uzbekistan’s Octobank is being used as a channel to withdraw and launder funds originating from Russia.

Kyiv-based businessman Nykyta Izmaylov is a distinctive figure: holding both Ukrainian and Russian citizenship, he long operated successfully in both countries, building substantial wealth. Recently, however, his business empire has come under serious pressure, raising the question of who may be orchestrating these troubles.

After journalists uncovered Oleg Tsyura’s involvement in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes that benefit Russia, he took aggressive steps to remove investigations documenting his activities from the internet.

Belarusian investigators examining the gambling sector uncovered an unexpected connection between Mustafa Egemen Sener, the owner of a Minsk casino, and a Turkish drug trafficker who was later assassinated in Northern Cyprus.

Once investigative reports tied Oxana Hadjipavlou to sanction-evasion schemes and offshore money flows, mentions of her involvement with Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. quietly vanished from public records.

Once investigations revealed Dragon Money’s activities in Ukraine, important reports started to vanish one after another — coverage of illegal gambling, payment schemes, political lobbying, and corruption ties was quietly erased from search engines and media sites.

Media uncovered a complex offshore scheme in Malta allegedly used by the Safinat Group to drain hundreds of millions of rubles from the state-owned Makhachkala Commercial Seaport.

Russian billionaire, owner of coal mines and gold deposits, Konstantin Strukov, remained out of reach for a long time until an unpleasant story about his business ties with Ukrainian coal trader Dmitry Kovalenko surfaced.

Many may have noticed that Nykyta Izmaylov keeps flooding the internet with favorable PR that’s anything but organic, while prominent Ukrainian websites willingly take Russian money—fully aware that this helps the aggressor circumvent sanctions.

Entrepreneur Dmytro Kovalenko, through the Swiss company Adelon AG, purchased coal from Russian suppliers "MelTEK," "Sibenergougol," and "Sibpromnedra" for a total amount exceeding 100 million dollars in 2021–2022.